Package org.eclipse.jetty.server.session

Interface SessionCache

All Superinterfaces:
LifeCycle
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractSessionCache, DefaultSessionCache, NullSessionCache
public interface SessionCache extends LifeCycle
SessionCache A working set of Session objects for a context. Ideally, multiple requests for the same session id in the same context will always share the same Session object from the SessionCache, but it would be possible for implementations of SessionCache to create a fresh object for each request. The SessionData pertaining to the Session objects is obtained from/written to a SessionDataStore. The SessionDataStore is the authoritative source of session data:
  • if the session data is not present in the SessionDataStore the session does not exist.
  • if the session data is present in the SessionDataStore but its expiry time has passed then the session is deemed to have expired and is therefore invalid
A SessionCache can passivate a valid Session to the SessionDataStore and evict it from the cache according to various strategies:
  • whenever the last request exits a Session
  • whenever the Session has not been accessed for a configurable number of seconds
. Eviction can save memory, and can also help mitigate some of the problems of a non-sticky load balancer by forcing the session data to be re-read from the SessionDataStore more frequently.

  • Field Details

  • Method Details

    • initialize

      void initialize(SessionContext context)
      Parameters:
      context - the SessionContext to use for this cache

    • shutdown

      void shutdown()

    • getSessionHandler

      SessionHandler getSessionHandler()

    • newSession

      Session newSession(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, String id, long time, long maxInactiveMs)
      Create an entirely new Session.
      Parameters:
      request - the request
      id - the unique id associated to the session
      time - the timestamp of the session creation
      maxInactiveMs - the max inactive time in milliseconds
      Returns:
      a new Session

    • newSession

      Session newSession(SessionData data)
      Re-materialize a Session that has previously existed.
      Parameters:
      data - the data associated with the session
      Returns:
      a Session object for the data supplied

    • renewSessionId

      Session renewSessionId(String oldId, String newId, String oldExtendedId, String newExtendedId) throws Exception
      Change the id of a Session.
      Parameters:
      oldId - the current session id
      newId - the new session id
      oldExtendedId - the current extended session id
      newExtendedId - the new extended session id
      Returns:
      the Session after changing its id
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • add

      void add(String id, Session session) throws Exception
      Adds a new Session, with a never-before-used id, to the cache.
      Parameters:
      id -
      session -
      Throws:
      Exception

    • get

      Session get(String id) throws Exception
      Get an existing Session. If necessary, the cache will load the data for the session from the configured SessionDataStore.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      Returns:
      the Session if one exists, null otherwise
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • put

      @Deprecated void put(String id, Session session) throws Exception
      Deprecated.
      use release(String, Session) instead
      Finish using a Session. This is called by the SessionHandler once a request is finished with a Session. SessionCache implementations may want to delay writing out Session contents until the last request exits a Session.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      session - the current session object
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • release

      void release(String id, Session session) throws Exception
      Finish using a Session. This is called by the SessionHandler once a request is finished with a Session. SessionCache implementations may want to delay writing out Session contents until the last request exits a Session.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      session - the current session object
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • commit

      void commit(Session session) throws Exception
      Called when a response is about to be committed. The cache can write the session to ensure that the SessionDataStore contains changes to the session that occurred during the lifetime of the request. This can help ensure that if a subsequent request goes to a different server, it will be able to see the session changes via the shared store.
      Throws:
      Exception

    • contains

      boolean contains(String id) throws Exception
      Check to see if a Session is in the cache. Does NOT consult the SessionDataStore.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      Returns:
      true if a Session object matching the id is present in the cache, false otherwise
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • exists

      boolean exists(String id) throws Exception
      Check to see if a session exists: WILL consult the SessionDataStore.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      Returns:
      true if the session exists, false otherwise
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • delete

      Session delete(String id) throws Exception
      Remove a Session completely: from both this cache and the SessionDataStore.
      Parameters:
      id - the session id
      Returns:
      the Session that was removed, null otherwise
      Throws:
      Exception - if any error occurred

    • checkExpiration

      Set<String> checkExpiration(Set<String> candidates)
      Check a list of session ids that belong to potentially expired sessions. The Session in the cache should be checked, but also the SessionDataStore, as that is the authoritative source of all session information.
      Parameters:
      candidates - the session ids to check
      Returns:
      the set of session ids that have actually expired: this can be a superset of the original candidate list.

    • checkInactiveSession

      void checkInactiveSession(Session session)
      Check a Session to see if it might be appropriate to evict or expire.
      Parameters:
      session - the session to check

    • setSessionDataStore

      void setSessionDataStore(SessionDataStore sds)
      A SessionDataStore that is the authoritative source of session information.
      Parameters:
      sds - the SessionDataStore to use

    • getSessionDataStore

      SessionDataStore getSessionDataStore()
      Returns:
      the SessionDataStore used

    • setEvictionPolicy

      void setEvictionPolicy(int policy)
      Sessions in this cache can be:
      • never evicted
      • evicted once the last request exits
      • evicted after a configurable period of inactivity
      Parameters:
      policy - -1 is never evict; 0 is evict-on-exit; and any other positive value is the time in seconds that a session can be idle before it can be evicted.

    • getEvictionPolicy

      int getEvictionPolicy()
      Returns:
      the eviction policy

    • setSaveOnInactiveEviction

      void setSaveOnInactiveEviction(boolean saveOnEvict)
      Whether or not a a session that is about to be evicted should be saved before being evicted.
      Parameters:
      saveOnEvict - true if the session should be saved before being evicted

    • isSaveOnInactiveEviction

      boolean isSaveOnInactiveEviction()
      Returns:
      true if the session should be saved before being evicted

    • setSaveOnCreate

      void setSaveOnCreate(boolean saveOnCreate)
      Whether or not a session that is newly created should be immediately saved. If false, a session that is created and invalidated within a single request is never persisted.
      Parameters:
      saveOnCreate - true to immediately save the newly created session

    • isSaveOnCreate

      boolean isSaveOnCreate()
      Returns:
      if true the newly created session will be saved immediately

    • setRemoveUnloadableSessions

      void setRemoveUnloadableSessions(boolean removeUnloadableSessions)
      If the data for a session exists but is unreadable, the SessionCache can instruct the SessionDataStore to delete it.
      Parameters:
      removeUnloadableSessions - true to delete session which cannot be loaded

    • isRemoveUnloadableSessions

      boolean isRemoveUnloadableSessions()
      Returns:
      if true unloadable session will be deleted

    • setFlushOnResponseCommit

      void setFlushOnResponseCommit(boolean flushOnResponse)
      If true, a dirty session will be written to the SessionDataStore just before a response is returned to the client. This ensures that subsequent requests to either the same node or a different node see the changed session data.

    • isFlushOnResponseCommit

      boolean isFlushOnResponseCommit()
      Returns:
      true if dirty sessions should be written before the response is committed.

    • setInvalidateOnShutdown

      void setInvalidateOnShutdown(boolean invalidateOnShutdown)
      If true, all existing sessions in the cache will be invalidated when the server shuts down. Default is false.
      Parameters:
      invalidateOnShutdown -

    • isInvalidateOnShutdown

      boolean isInvalidateOnShutdown()